Shirley Chisholm - Famous and Notable Women of New York with Dr. Ron Brown

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Shirley Anita Chisholm was one of many African- Americans in New York who led the Civil Rights Movement. Demanding equal rights was one thing, but Shirley knew that Blacks, like all minorities, had to be in positions of power in Washington to guarantee them. The assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Medgar Evers revealed the fragility of the gains of the movement. In 1968, she was elected to the US Congress as a Democrat from the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. As the first Black woman to serve in Congress she inspired many other women to enter politics.

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